Despite its small size, 31 Caltech alumni and faculty have won the Nobel Prize and 66 have won the National Medal of Science or Technology.

Despite Connecticut's relatively small size, it features wide regional variations in its landscape ; for example, in the northwestern Litchfield Hills, it features rolling mountains and horse farms, whereas in the southeastern New London County, it features beaches and maritime activities.

Despite its small size ( roughly from its northernmost to southernmost points ), there is significant variation in mean temperature and amount of snowfall between Sussex County and New Castle County.

Despite the size of the instrument, it is not as loud as many other instruments due to its low range.

Despite its beauty, size and numerous recreational opportunities, the lake is scarcely visited sheerly to its distance from Helsinki, and its daunting distance to other similarly-populated areas in the south of the country.

Despite its small size within Guatemala, many leaders were extremely vocal about their beliefs ( for instance, in their protests and, more importantly, their literature ).

Despite its small size, Hong Kong has a relatively large number of mineral occurrences.

Despite, or perhaps because of, its small size Harwich is highly regarded in terms of architectural heritage, and the whole of the older part of the town, excluding Navyard Wharf, is a conservation area.

Despite the absence of conditional jumps, the Z3 was a Turing complete computer ( ignoring the fact that no physical computer can be truly Turing complete because of limited storage size ).

Despite its small size and relatively short existence, the exact nature of the kingdom and its origins, customs, laws, and population is still debated.

Despite its small size, Luxembourg has a varied topography, with two main features to its landscape.

Despite its impressive size, the OED is neither the world's largest nor the earliest exhaustive dictionary of a language.

Despite their tiny size both adults and children race them at speeds of up to in organized racing leagues.

Despite contrasting natures and size, the pair got on famously, was the first time a Tsar didn't have a mistress, and produced six children.

Despite the game's small size and admittedly joking nature, there are more than 30 fan-authored websites devoted to Risus, some including several rules variants, simple worldbooks, and wholly rewritten adaptations of the game.

Despite being only 2 miles apart and quite diminutive in size, Saint Kitts and Nevis were widely recognized as being separate entities with separate identities, until they were forcefully unified in the late 19th century

Despite his army's smaller size, he was able to defeat the Solomonids at the battles of Serjan and Zikr Amhara and consequently pillaged the surrounding areas.

* Despite periodic fluctuations, populations remain roughly the same size ( fact ).

Despite halting his diminution, he is told that he will never return to his former size unless a cure is found, and that the antidote will only arrest the shrinking.

Despite a fully developed cable network in all mid-and large size cities, there is no Internet access through cable TV in Uruguay as it has been steadfastedly opposed by government regulators.

( Despite reduced size in aerodynamic feathers ) Most eagles are larger than any other raptors apart from some vultures.

Despite its size, the whale shark feeds only on plankton, squid, and small fish by filter feeding.

Despite this, the size of armed forces expanded at this time.

Despite the vast size of its coma, Halley's nucleus is relatively small: barely 15 kilometers long, 8 kilometers wide and perhaps 8 kilometers thick.

Despite its size, the equivalent of five city blocks long with a three story high conning tower, it has so far remained undetected.

Despite the fact that the result of the next use would be displayed on the machine, both courts ruled that " The inducement for each play was the chance that by that play the machine would be set to indicate that it would pay checks on the following play.

Despite the interest of Baghdad displayed in Ray, the number of Arabs there was insignificant, and the population consisted of Persians of all classes.

Despite missing the playoffs in back-to-back seasons for the first time since the 80's, the 2007 – 08 season displayed many signs of growth in the team, especially towards the end of the season.

Despite multiple seats being displayed on some maps, the formal county seat is Taunton ; Fall River and New Bedford are not county seats, but there are some courthouses and other county-operated facilities in those two places.

Despite this, when displayed in some stores, even the " uncensored " editions are censored manually.

Despite the installation of fiberglass shades, the paintings were removed in the late 1970s and, due to the fugitive nature of some of the red pigments, were placed in dark storage and only displayed periodically.

Despite Maximian's assurance, Severus was nonetheless displayed as a captive and later imprisoned at Tres Tabernae.

Despite her high-class upbringing, she has displayed a resourcefulness, (" in an outdoorsy kind of way "), that first attracted Vimes's attention.

Despite heavy fire from the Spanish shore batteries, Phillips displayed extraordinary heroism throughout this operation.

Despite his laziness, Fry has also exhibited remarkable bravery and self-sacrifice on occasion and has even displayed flashes of stagnant intelligence.

Despite his mental instability, Rorschach was described as " tactically brilliant, and unpredictable " by Nite Owl, and possesses surprisingly good detective skills, as displayed when he is able to locate the Comedian's costume in his apartment when the police could not.

Despite numerous mistakes, Villani often displayed an insider's knowledge on many subjects, as a result of his extensive travels and access to both official and private documents.

Despite substantial damage to the port lower wing and both port engines, the aircraft was repaired and returned to service. Wreckage of Qantas DH. 86 VH-USG ( c / n 2311 ) displayed in the Qantas Founders Museum, Longreach ( Qld .).

Despite Linus ' intelligence and mature vocabulary, juvenile aspects of his character are also displayed for example Linus is almost always depicted holding his blue blanket --- for which he is often the subject of mockery from other characters --- and often sucking his thumb.

Despite the cruelties displayed by the Hellion Empath, Magma develops an attraction towards him.

Despite this, the Phantom Ranger displayed his own affection for Cassie on certain occasions as well.

Despite teething troubles which saw the power units and gearboxes reach what many observers claimed to be an unacceptably high level of unreliability, Mecachrome has been an integral and vital part of the success of the GP2 Series, providing the power which has displayed the emerging talents of F1 drivers Nico Rosberg, Heikki Kovalainen, Lewis Hamilton and Timo Glock.

Despite the fact that many people considered him to have died at too young an age – fourteen – to be considered for sainthood, he was considered eligible for such singular honour on the basis of his having displayed " heroic virtue " in his everyday life.

Despite this, Owen Mercer, Bart's half-brother, still displayed occasional access to the Speed Force before and after Bart's death, which caused his body to generate a " background bio-electric field.

Despite some performances at Tottenham which clearly displayed his talents, ( For example his stunning goal against Everton and his debut strike for the North London club ) Kanoute was unable to cement himself as a regular goal scorer at White Heart Lane.

Despite the lack of identification, the man's skull was displayed as that of " Pa Bender " in a Salmon saloon until prohibition forced its closure in 1920 and the skull disappeared.

Despite levelling the home series with Sri Lanka two-all, New Zealand's top order batting has consistently displayed frailty, and this was most apparent after New Zealand compiled a dismal team total of 73 in one ODI during that series.

Despite its earlier involvement, the Discovery Institute was concerned that this would be a test case and that the defendants had earlier displayed their religious motivations.